This is the Frankfurt edition of Galileo's Sidereus nuncius, printed several months after the first edition, issued by Tomasso Baglioni in Venice. This edition was printed by Zacharias Palthenius and is considered by many to be a piracy. The lunar illustrations are done in woodcut, rather than engravings. Palthenius also reproduced an error that Galileo had corrected in the Venice printing: the drop-title of "Cosmica Sydera," which Galileo had intended to use in order to honor Cosimo Medici II was corrected to the more preferable "Medicea Sydera" via cancel slips in many Venice copies

Signatures: A-C⁸ D⁴.

Errors in paging: p. 33-48 are misnumbered as 17-32

Title page vignette (publisher's device); head-pieces; initials

BM (compact ed.)

Zinner, E. Astronomischen Literatur in Deutschland

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in modern, limp vellum and housed in a gray cloth box. Present on the title page is the embossed stamp of the Library and an early ownership inscription ("Ex Libris Francisci Antonij Bagnij Centensis"). This copy is the first of two items bound together in a single volume that contains [1]: Sidereus nuncius / Galileo Galilei -- [2]: Dissertatio cum Nuncio sidereo / Kepler (Frankfurt : Palthenium, 1611). Housed with previous binding of limp vellum, with the bookplate of the BPL Bates Fund, dated Feb. 10, 1862.

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